Overview
- Kick-off is 6pm at the Coventry Building Society Arena with live coverage on Sky Sports, and transport operators warn of crowded trains and local road congestion with extra calls at Coventry Arena station.
- Coventry sit top by eight points, have won eight straight at home, and remain unbeaten on their own pitch this season.
- Ipswich are third after a 0-0 draw at Millwall and have managed only three away wins in the league, with no victory in their last four on the road.
- Kieran McKenna says Szmodics could miss out through illness and confirms Hirst is out with a groin injury, while Coventry remain without top scorer Brandon Thomas-Asante as Ephron Mason-Clark continues a three-game scoring streak.
- Ipswich won the reverse fixture 3-0 on 6 December, though McKenna cautions that result will not define the rematch against a stronger Coventry lineup.